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"Another swedish traditional folksong; "När som jag var på mitt adertonde år" (As I was on my eighteenth year) (YT description) Swedish lyrics with English translation used here: http://marcelgomessweden.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/swedish-traditional-folksong-nar-som-jag-var-pa-mitt-adertonde-ar/ music captioning wiki page: http://musiccaptioning.wikispaces.com/N%C3%A4r+som+jag+var+p%C3%A5+mitt+adertonde+%C3%A5r Also on http://folkdc.wikispaces.com/Danish+Folk+Songs"

Added to the http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/teams/musiccaptioning team/project.

This is a fantastic resource for any classroom learning Chinese or about China. The dictionary pinyin with tones as well as simplified and traditional writing, an animation of the order stroke for many words and audio of how the word should be spoken. There is also other resources such as practice sheets for writing, a translator, and other stuff for kids and the classroom.

World Stories is a growing collection of stories from around the World. The collection includes retold traditional tales and new short stories in the 21 languages most spoken by UK children.

"Traditional song from the Ionian Islands (Adriatica). Here, one stanza has been skipped: see http://kanellatou.gr/en/music-archive/lyrics/item/202-kefalonia-gialo-gialo.html (the transcript I used) and http://www.allthelyrics.com/forum/greek-lyrics-translation/72431-translation-from-greek-to-english.html for a bilingual version"

These topics involved different cultural traditions, common European history, comparable cultural processes, European citizenship and multiplicity of perspective: - Migration - causes and consequences for Europe - Urban development in the 19th Century - The Treaty of Versailles - The European Community: life and working space for citizens The partners promised to exchange suitable materials on these topics, to develop teaching units, and to test, document and evaluate these units

In this webinar, expert in eBooks Meredith Wemhoff discusses ways to engage and support learners with special needs using eBooks and audio. Using the case-study of an independent all-boys school located in Surrey, the school provides special needs students an opportunity to succeed and thrive. Many arrive to the 80-year-old institution with low self-confidence, often due to struggles they faced in traditional educational institutions caused by learning and language difficulties. This means providing a collection that meets the individual learning needs of the school's 470 students, who range in age from 8-18. ​​​​​​​ During this eye-opening webinar, Meredith will share the story of selecting, launching and promoting a digital library service that helps address learning challenges. Attendees will come away with best practices for bringing ebooks and audiobooks to their school and real-life examples of these practices in action. Don't miss out, register today!

Advice for language learners General warning: what follows may or may not apply to you. It's based on what linguistics knows about people in general (but any general advice will be ludicrously inappropriate for some people) and on my own experience (but you're not the same as me). If you have another way of learning that works, more power to you. Given the discussion so far, the prospects for language learning may seem pretty bleak. It seems that you'll only learn a language if you really need to; but the fact that you haven't done so already is a pretty good indication that you don't really need to. How to break out of this paradox? At the least, try to make the facts of language learning work for you, not against you. Exposure to the language, for instance, works in your favor. So create exposure. * Read books in the target language. * Better yet, read comics and magazines. (They're easier, more colloquial, and easier to incorporate into your weekly routine.) * Buy music that's sung in it; play it while you're doing other things. * Read websites and participate in newsgroups that use it. * Play language tapes in your car. If you have none, make some for yourself. * Hang out in the neighborhood where they speak it. * Try it out with anyone you know who speaks it. If necessary, go make new friends. * Seek out opportunities to work using the language. * Babysit a child, or hire a sitter, who speaks the language. * Take notes in your classes or at meetings in the language. * Marry a speaker of the language. (Warning: marry someone patient: some people want you to know their language-- they don't want to teach it. Also, this strategy is tricky for multiple languages.) Taking a class can be effective, partly for the instruction, but also because you can meet others who are learning the language, and because, psychologically, classes may be needed to make us give the subject matter time and attention. Self-study is too eas